Severe Thunderstorm Warning 314, NWS Dodge City, KS

Issued

Jul 13, 1996, 10:44 PM CDT (03:44 UTC)

Expired

Jul 13, 1996, 11:30 PM CDT

In force

46 min

Issued by

NWS Dodge City, KS

Area

Whole counties

Counties Ness County, KS, Rush County, KS

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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TTAA00 KDDC 140344
SVRDDC
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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1044 PM CDT SAT JUL 13 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY KS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

   ...NORTHERN NESS COUNTY

IN CENTRAL KANSAS

   ...NORTHERN RUSH COUNTY
 
AT 1038 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF BEELER...EAST THROUGH RANSOM...TO 2
MILES NORTH OF LIEBENTHAL.

TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...BEELER...UTICA...
MC CRACKEN...AND LA CROSSE.

THESE STORMS HAVE ALREADY PRODUCED WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH AND
HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER IN TREGO AND ELLIS COUNTIES.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS TAKE COVER NOW!
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAXGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  STAY
INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

SS/SMR

NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 13, 3:40 PM CDT, 7 hours 4 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
340 PM CDT SAT JUL 13 1996

...SHORT TERM...
CNVCTN NOW ALG OK BORDER AREAS CONTS THIS EVE WHILE TSTMS NOW AALG LEE
SLOPES WORK EAST FOR LATER TNGT. MEANWHILE...CNVCTN OVR NEBR SHD
ACCELERATE FNT SWRD ACRS KS TNGT. MDLS AGN 2-4 MBS TOO WEAK ON COLD AIR
N OF THE FNT AND WITH CNVCTN N OF FNT WD XPCT IT TO PUSH THRU AHEAD OF
FWC TIMING. FNT WL BRING MORE CHCS FOR TSTMS THUS WL KEEP LIKELY POPS
ACRS FA TNGT AS AIRMASS RMNS UNSTABLE. GOING FCST LKS GOOD FOR OVRNGT
LOWS AND WL STICK WITH LWR 60S FOR LOWS. FOR NOW... NO MNTN OF SVR OR
LCLY HVY RAIN BUT WL HV TO WATCH THIS SITUATION DURING THE EVE.

...LONGER TERM...
MAIN CONCERN IS RW/TRW CHC BEHIND FNT SUNDAY. THINKING 20 POP RW/TRW
BEFORE NOON DUE TO PROXIMITY OF FNT TO THE SOUTH OF THE CWA...20
POP RW/TRW IN EVENING DUE TO PROXIMITY OF 50H TROUGH...SLIGHT PVA...
AND LINGERING INSTABILITY.

DDC 063/083 061/091 066 13622
GCK 062/083 060/091 066 13622
EHA 063/083 060/092 064 13622
LBL 064/083 060/092 064 13622
HYS 063/080 059/091 066 13622
P28 067/083 064/092 068 13622

CICCONE

In the hours before

KSZ030-045-140645-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
647 PM CDT SAT JUL 13 1996

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN UPDATED TO A TORNADO WATCH...

AT 645 PM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 774 HAS BEEN CHANGED TO A
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 775 VALID UNTIL 1 AM FOR TREGO AND NESS COUNTIES
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF NESS CITY AND WAKEENEY.

KRUSE

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.